BIOL 1500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Microsoft Onenote, Infant Mortality, Population Pyramid
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Define population ecology, and describe some of its applications. Scientific study of the interaction of a group of individuals in a particular species with its environment, combines theory with field work. The population density of deer under different management plans. The yield from a population of corn plants when planted at a particular density. The limits that should be placed on fish catches. When to take action on the emergence of a pest species in a forest or on farms. Whether wolf hunting should be allowed in alaska to increase the caribou herd. The causes of declines in reptile and amphibian populations throughout the world. Describe the three steps in the mark-recapture method which is used to sample animal populations, and show how the calculations are done. Researchers capture many individuals and mark them somehow, releasing them once again after. At another point in time researchers capture a group of individuals again in the same area.